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From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh XL/MacWorks 3.0
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.035801.5204@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 03:58:01 GMT
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In article <1300@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> rcbaem@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Ernst <pooh> Mulder) writes:
> How does MacWorks work? How much of a Mac is my Lisa running MacWorks?

Back, way back, when it was only trying to be the same as a 64K ROM machine,
it only took around 64K. Now, I'll bet it probably takes around 128K.

MacWorks Plus should work with just about any current program that will work
on a Mac+, as long as it doesn't try to write directly to hard-coded memory
locations for the screen, or rely on a few hardware features such as the
sound generation mechanism (it CAN do simple sounds, but it can't handle all
of the synthesis methods). Other than the Lisa being an extremely slow 68000,
I really liked the machine. It was well constructed, easy to take apart, and
it had memory management hardware built in (although it is probably not
compatible with anything that works with the 68030 or 68020 with PMMU.
--
Steve Peltz (almost) CFI-G
"Monticello traffic, Glider 949 landing 18, full stop"